From: William Barry <???????????????>
Subject: A GRATEFUL PIPE SMOKER HAS TWO CONCERNS

Hi, Steve:

I did receive my latest Pipe Digest in the mail.  You are doing a
fantastic job with this publication, and I am grateful to be onyour list
of subscribers.  I have several concerns, two of which will be addressed
here.  First, at the beginning of your publication, you mention that we
might vote against prohibition of smoking.  How, and where?  Also, about
28 years ago, I was introduced to a most superb blend of Danish Tobacco
called Fruitcake, which was housed in a rectangular tin, in a foil pouch.
I have not been able to obtain this most excellent blend ever since that
time.  Is there anyone out there who knows where I can obtain this most
excellent blend of tobacco, as well as Highland Whiskey tobacco Blend, a
sample of which I received with my subscription to a pipe magazine?  You
don't hagve to answer me right away, but I would appreciate this quury,
along with a possible answer, to appear in the nexst issue of Pipes
Digest.  Please accept my heartfelt thanks for provviding an excellent,
informative publication about my favorite hobby.  Fortunately, I can now
read regular printed textual-based pipe maginzes on a machine which I now
own.  I had the book "THE BOOK OF PIPES AND TOBACCO" transcribed into a
Braille format about 20 years ago; alas, it was stolen from me.  I don't
know how you find the time to put together such an excellent publication,
but as a brother of the briar, I fully appreciate your efforts, and hope
you will keep up the fine quality of tyis magazine.  I have a vast pipe
collection, and I have found that each one of my pipes exhibits a certain
characteristic all its own.  I have been smoking pipes for about 30 years,
and, being blind from birth, have experienced not only the joy of filling
and lighting my pipe, but also enjoying with a cup of coffee or alcoholic
drink, the superior pleasure of allowing the fragrant smoke to roll across
the tongue and palate.  Please advise ow I can help to promote a most
enjoyable habit against those zealous anti-smoker advocates, who are not
educated on the true merits of the pipe.  I am deeply grateful for this
publication, and I say, to everyone of the other "brethren of the briar"
"smoke in peace".  

Sincerely,

Bill Barry.  

[OK, I lied about not talking politics... but in a very general
sense.  While we can't vote against prohibition, we can (if given the
choice) vote against those who would do the prohibiting. -S.]


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